Franz Borgias March

Franz Borgias March

Landsberger Straße 80 around 1904. The Maerz organ building company was in the building on the left. The house was on the street side, behind it the assembly room. The two buildings were destroyed by high explosive bombs in the last air raids in 1945

Franz Borgias Maerz (born July 30, 1848 in Munich ; † March 23, 1910 there ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Franz Borgias Maerz was the youngest child of Sebastian and Anna Nothwinkler after his older siblings, Ferdinand-Anton, Julie and Helene. The family lived across from the organ building company on Landsberger Strasse and were friends with the Maerz family. After the early loss of his father and a later fatal household accident of his mother, he was orphaned at the age of three. He was taken alone in the neighboring house of the childless organ builder Max Maerz , where he later learned the organ building trade. In 1868 he was adopted by his foster father and took his name. As early as 1876, he traveled to Ploieşti in Romania and Louisville ( Kentucky ) as an authorized representative, where he set up organs. There he also met his brother who had emigrated to Seattle . After the death of his father, he took over the business on May 1st, 1879 and continued to run it as "Max Maerz & Sohn, Inh. FB Maerz". Franz Borgias Maerz was unmarried for a long time. Four years before his death he married Magdalena Maerz, b. Geiselhart. She took care of him when he increasingly suffered from kidney disease and atherosclerosis . Maerz died after a long, serious illness. The marriage had remained childless.

plant

After taking over the company, Franz Borgias Maerz first built organs with a mechanical cone chest up to the turn of the century . Then Friedrich Witzig, who had previously worked for Steinmeyer and Strebel , joined the company as a further employee. He was the inventor of the pocket drawer . From this point on, Maerz increasingly turned to the pocket drawer and built drawers according to the Witzig system with hanging and standing pockets. Around 450 organs were built under his direction, around 60 for Munich churches alone. Due to the limited space on his company property, it is certain that he obtained some prefabricated parts from Laukhuff . His students included u. a. Albert Moser , Ludwig Eisenschmid , Karl Frosch and Leopold Nenninger . In 1905 he was appointed royal organ builder by Luitpold of Bavaria . Shortly before his death, in 1909, Albert Schönle took over the company and operated under the name “Max Maerz & Sohn, Inh. Albert Schönle” until it closed in 1928.

"With technically clean and durable work, the company was a leader in the Catholic area of ​​Bavaria."

List of works (excerpt)

year	opus	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1879	136	Branch	St. Georg location		I / P	10	→ organ
1884	176	Kirchdorf near Haag i. IF	Parish Church of the Assumption location		II / P	18th	Restored in 2006 by Norbert Krieger (owner Wolfram Kuhn), Retzbach-Zellingen.
1884		Marnbach	St. Michael location		I / P	6th	Restored in 1948 and 1991 → organ
1885		Jenkofen	Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption Location		I / P	5	→ organ
1886		Long price	Parish Church of St. Martin location		II / P	12	Replaced in 1972 by an instrument from Orgelbau Sandtner (II / P, 14), sold to Breitbrunn in 1973 → Organ
1887	205	Geisenhausen	Parish Church of St. Martin location		II / P	18th	1980 Conversion with expansion to 19 registers by Hubertus von Kerssenbrock → Organ
1888		Maria Thalheim	Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption Location		II / P	18th	Rebuilt in 1969, restored by Johannes Führer in 1994
1889		Aufkirchen	St. Johann Baptist location		I / P	10	Restored in 1997 by Johannes Führer and in 2000 by Gerhard Schmid → Organ
1890	233	Bad Reichenhall	St. Zeno location		I / P	9	1998 transferred from Oberdarching (renamed Mitterdarching, community Valley ) to Bad Reichenhall → organ
1892		Weihbüchl	St. Benedict location		I / P	6th	→ organ
1893	281	Fridolfing	Assumption location		II / P	25th	→ organ
1893	287	Garching near Munich	St. Katharina location		I / P	10	largely preserved, restored in 2013 by Orgelbau Linder → organ
1894	299	Hainsacker	St. Aegidius location		II / P	15th
1894	307	Bettbrunn	St. Salvator location		II / P	20th	Parts of the organ by Johann König from 1692 (attribution questionable). Prospectus from 1780 by Georg Wagner, Ingolstadt. Reconstruction in 1970 by L. Plößl. Reconstruction of the Maerz disposition by Heribert Heick .
1895	312	Rettenbach	St. Laurentius location		I / P	7th	1985 Johann Rickert added a neo-baroque Rückpositiv.
1895	321	Neuötting	Monastery location		II / P	16	1985 transferred from Gmund am Tegernsee
1896		Stone churches	St. John Baptist and John Evangelist Location		I / P	8th
1897		Wilparting	Pilgrimage Church Wilparting location		I / P	7th	→ organ
1897	337	Munich	St. Michael location		III / P	38	Donated in will by Franziska von Hoffnaaß . Disposition by Josef Gabriel Rheinberger . Destroyed in 1944
1898		Bonbruck	Assumption location		I / P	9	not received in 1982 by an organ of Schuster replaced → Organ
1898		Weilheim in Upper Bavaria	Holy Trinity location		I / P	9	Replaced by a new building in 1975 using some old registers → organ
1899	363	Reichenkirchen	St. Michael location		II / P	12	→ organ
1899	366	Tittmoning	St. Laurentius location		II / P	24	Brochure by Johann Christoph Egedacher from 1740. Until 1816 in Herrenchiemsee Abbey . Reconstruction 1970. Extension 1974. → Organ
1899		Bad Reichenhall	St. Zeno location		II / P	23	→ organ
1900	389	Neumarkt-Sankt Veit	Sankt Veit Monastery location		II / P	20th	Housing by Christoph Egedacher the Elder from 1639. 1976 Conversion by Max Sax, Altmühldorf . → organ
1901		Velden (Vils)	St. Peter location		II / P	18th	Neo-Gothic case by Joseph Elsner senior from 1899. → Organ
1902	429	Munich	St. Kajetan		II / P	28	Destroyed in 1945
1903	448	Munich	St. Maximilian		III / P	47	Destroyed in 1943
1904	456	augsburg	Cathedral of the Visitation location		II / P	36	1986 Restoration by Rudolf Kubak → organ
1904	458	Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg	St. John Evangelist location		II / P	16	In the case from 1783 by Anton Bayr. Rebuilt and changed several times. Received in storage. 1985 New building in the historic housing by Manfred Mathis . → organ
1905		Steinkirchen - Niederstraubing	St. Martin location		I / P	5	1974 Installation of an electric fan by Ludwig Wastlhuber, Mößling → organ
1905	491	Brannenburg	Assumption location		I / P	8th	1999 New building and expansion by OBM Alois Linder using the existing case and all existing pipe material
1906		Eschenlohe	St. Clemens location		II / P	22nd	1930 and 1972 rebuilds → organ
1906		Grammel came	St. Petrus location		I / P	5	→ organ
1906	503	Penzberg - Nantesbuch	Assumption of Mary location		I / P	6th	receive
1906	504	Munich	St. Michael (Perlach) location		II / P	14th	1979 new work by Wilhelm Stöberl with III / 26
1906	506	Munich	St. Paul		III / P	50	destroyed 1944/45
1907	497	Munich	St. Rupert location		II / P	28	Built in 1887 with II / 25 for the concert hall of the Royal Odeon. 1933 new prospectus, conversion and expansion to 38 registers by Magnus Schmid.
1907		Gelting (Geretsried)	St. Benedict location		I / P	9
1907		Munich	St. Rupert location		I / P	6th	originally in St. Leonhard in Greimharting
1907		Uffing - Schöffau location	St. Anna		I / P	7th	→ organ
1909		Bockhorn	Visitation location		II / P	12	→ organ
1910		Munich	St. Peter		III / P	54	Built in the workshop successor Albert Schönle. Destroyed in 1945.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Obituary in the Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau , Vol .: 30, Leipzig, 1909, p. 779, accessed on July 22, 2017
2. ↑ ^{a b} Stefan Hammermayer: Bavarian organ building around the turn of the century. Franz Borgias March (1848–1910) . Wiedemann, Bad Reichenhall 1999, ISBN 3-00-004382-9 , p. 6-25, 128-130 .
3. ^ Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 .
4. ^ Martin Weyer: Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901) . In: Ars Organi . tape 49 , 2001, ISSN  0004-2919 , p. 134-140 .
5. ↑ Information on the organs and organ music in St. Rupert

literature

• Georg Brenninger : Organs in Old Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7654-1859-5 .
• Stefan Hammermayer: Bavarian organ building around the turn of the century. Franz Borgias March (1848–1910) . Wiedemann, Bad Reichenhall 1999, ISBN 3-00-004382-9 .

Web links

Commons : Franz Borgias Maerz organs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Franz Borgias Maerz in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

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